Maddox Jolie-Pitt ‘doesn’t really see himself as Brad’ son,’ according to a family source

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US actor Angelina Jolie (L) holds daughter Zahara as husband and actor Brad Pitt (C) carries son Maddox during a stroll on the seafront promenade at the historic Gateway of India, (R) outside their hotel in Mumbai, 12 November 2006. Jolie and Pitt are in India’s financial hub – Mumbai to shoot for her film “A Mighty Heart”, based on the life of the slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in which Jolie portrays Marianne – wife of Daniel Pearl. (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Footage of Angelina Jolie enjoying a quintessential parent moment — dropping off her child to start college — was shared by someone in the crowd at Yonsei University in South Korea. That’s where her oldest son, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, is set to begin his first year of college.

But one person was noticeably absent from this milestone: the young man’s father, Brad Pitt. That’s because 18-year-old Maddox and his movie star father are estranged, according to Us Weekly.

“Brad hasn’t been spending much time with Maddox lately,” an insider told Us Weekly, adding that Pitt was not invited to join his ex-wife in take their son to college. “Brad won’t be going.”

Pitt, 55, only learned of Maddox’s college plans earlier this month, right before the news leaked to the media, the insider told Us Weekly.

Pitt and Maddox have had a strained relationship since the father and son got into some kind of altercation on a private plane flying from Europe to Los Angeles in September 2016, according to Us Weekly.

“Maddox doesn’t really see himself as Brad’s son,” a family friend told Us Weekly.

The altercation reportedly prompted Jolie, 41, to file for divorce from Pitt after two years of marriage and 11 years together. The incident also sparked investigations by child welfare authorities.

Pitt was a “big yeller” when it came to the six children he and Jolie share, a source told Us Weekly.

Pitt eventually was cleared of any wrongdoing, and he came clean in a 2017 interview about having problems with drinking and other issues. The actor, currently winning raves for his performance in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” also had to undergo therapy, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and take other steps in order to prove his fitness as a father, while Jolie had physical custody of the kids, Us Weekly reported.

Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Angelina Jolie attend the “First They Killed My Father” premiere in 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Archives)

The teen “is very close with Angie,” a source told Us Weekly. The Academy Award winner adopted Maddox from an orphanage in Cambodia in 2002. Pitt legally adopted him after he and Jolie met while working together in the 2004 film “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and fell in love.

A family insider added to Us Weekly that Jolie has urged her son to “move forward on a new path with Brad.”

The couple’s other children are Pax, 15, Zahara, 14, Shiloh, 13, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 11.